Some of you might have met my character, Lannael. The high elf warlock. The one which IC looks more or less like a woman and obsessed with clothing and fashion.

I've been considering for some time now to do a ooc avatar change into a female, as that would fit a lot more, shape wise. Those of you who have met Lannael knows he is small, girly and has it not been for a tiny soul-patch beard and the lack of breasts, he could be mistaken for a girl. And he IC gets mistaken for a woman all the time.

Currently the muscly human male form is -nothing- like how he is at all, and it annoys me a bit.

So what I am asking is: What is you guys's opinion of it? Would it be too silly to ooc change the avatar?

Throwing my opinion in for the forum, though Thaldir already knows it: I find anything not visible on the avatar irritating. I won't make a fuss about it, but it's a mild pet peeve. Missing limbs/robotic limbs, High Elves in general rp'd by humans, people of the wrong race or gender.

The exception being the one dude who walked past with a wolf mask and a growth pot and emoted "is a worgen IC but too poor to pay for race change," that was absolute gold.

Heck, JP is a frail, scrawny fella and yet he's looking like he could go around knocking doors and ask for Sarah Connor.

The thing with the avatars is... They are neutral in a way. Sure, they don't look like some characters ought to look, but they are neutral. You could take the most buff human model and pretend it's a short fat man and nobody would break their head over it. You might have people stumble over it when you choose a different gender/race just because you feel the features are closer to what your character looks like.

After spending some time thinking off it I made the change. IC he looks no different, as he always was supposed to look like a girl. OOC he got changed to a woman. If I feel that I'm not happy with it, I'll just change it back. Worst thing that happens is that I've lost 30 euro.